Recent content by Chyvan

Don't do the gig work. It's TOO much work to deal with UI issues that can arise for what you get. Just collect the UI. If you have that much free time, clean your oven, repair your car, or paint your house. You don't have to report any income from doing work that you'd have to pay someone...

Here's the deal. In CA, the odds of your 401K withdrawal affecting your UI benefits is very close to zero. However, Commentator makes the best point that reporting it this way will trigger an investigation and suspend benefits which will stress you out. However, this method works in every...

That doesn't mean the claimant is going to be denied, and you need to get your terminology right. Most of these people are not being "recalled." That ship has sailed. They are getting "new" offers of work, and have all the protections to "suitability" and "prevailing." Unfortunately, not all...

You had a great shot at keeping your UI had you told the employer to pound sand and going through a refusal of work adjudication because 3rd shift in all probability is "substantially less favorable to the individual than what is available in the locality." When you worked that one day, that...

Before you start appealing, you need to do CALCULATIONS! With your $270/wk number that you're throwing out, OH might be doing you a huge favor in making you monetarily ineligible so that you can get a PUA claim instead. PUA claims get a minimum UI benefit of 50% of the state's average benefit...

It doesn't matter whether you were approved or not. AZDES sends out a debit card for no other reason than you submitted a UI application. I know because I still have mine with the letter than says, "this card does not mean that you were approved." I never needed to use mine because I...

Maybe. If by "voluntary" you mean the employer gives you the choice to come to work or not, then it depends what they tell the UI people. I wouldn't do it if I were counting on the UI money If the employer says to the UI people, "MCW20 was given the choice to work or not even though work was...

Because of this, AZDES mailed you a debit card. That debit card had instructions that you were to keep it because they'd put future benefits on it for at least 3 years. If you had signed up for direct deposit, that information gets purged with a sufficient gap in claiming, and things...

Can she do this assuming they have surplus income and that's what she's trying to protect: The husband puts his money in the TBE account. Then the two of them live off the wife's salary first, and only spend the husband's money from the TBE account to make up for any shortfall.

Not necessarily. She's got two small children, and probably paying a lot for daycare. Eliminate the cost of commute, take the kids out of day care, downgrade the insurance on the car because she won't be driving in rush hour traffic or as far (lower risk), firing the cleaning lady, and she...

Demotions can make for "good cause" quits. If you remotely think that you're going to quit, set the stage so that you can at least have a good shot at getting UI so you don't leave empty handed. A lot goes into getting UI in a quit so don't just up and walk out. Also, there's timing aspects...

It's also possible that had you not quit, you would have gotten your write up. It's just that under the circumstances, why bother giving it to you.

For purposes of unemployment, this should tell you what you want to know. https://www.edd.ca.gov/UIBDG/Total_and_Partial_Unemployment_TPU_46055.htm If you don't understand it, then fill in the gaps in your story, and I'll tell you if it counts or not. I'll even go out on a limb. Under CA's...

Pretend that you did nothing wrong and there were no reports of you doing anything wrong, and you were taken off the schedule and essentially fired without being told that you were fired. Would you feel you could do anything? This is the concept you have to grasp. Lots of people know they can...

File for unemployment.